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Fire Behaviour Training FacilitiesWe have, with the financial assistance of the Department of the Environment,Heritage and Local Government, installed some basic facilities for fire behaviourtraining in Ballinrobe Fire Station. All our firefighters will have to be trained inidentifying and suppressing in a safe manner fire development phenomena. We areone of a small number of counties to have the facility to train firefighters in this aspectof fire fighting.TrainingMayo County Council Fire Service continues to make a substantial investment in itsmost important resource, its staff.As part of our commitment to training and to adhere to Health and Safetyrequirements we are continuing with our Fire Behaviour Training. We have thefacilities in Ballinrobe Fire Station (funded by the Department of the Environment,Heritage and Local Government) to run these courses for our personnel. We arefortunate to be almost self sufficient in terms of Instructors and facilities to run mostof the above courses.Camp WestMayo County Council commenced roll-out of the CAMP West system to theparticipating fire authorities in December 2004. The system was rolled-out on astation by station and County by County basis. Roll-out commenced with the CountyMayo Fire stations.The system was fully rolled out to Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Donegal (38 firestation areas) by the end of June 2005. Parallel testing of the system and training offire fighter personnel commenced in August 2005 in counties Galway and Sligo.It is intended that the system will be fully rolled out to County Sligo (4 stations) bythe end of November 2005 and to at least two Galway stations by the end of the year.The remaining Galway stations will then be connected in January 2006.The estimated out-turn for CAMP West running costs for 2005 is €2m. The estimatedRunning costs for CAMP West in 2006 is €2.647m. Mayo County Council’scontribution to these costs will be €317,160 (13.26% of the total contributions), i.e. noincrease on 2005.CIVIL DEFENCECivil Defence has produced a statement of strategy in the form of a Corporate Plan2004 - 2007. The Civil Defence Board adopted this plan. The plan was prepared inaccordance with the overall guidelines set down in the Government's StrategicManagement Initiative.57